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Topic: Technical difficulties with Buzzr (Read 1300 times)

For the past 24 hours, my Buzzr channel (1265 on Spectrum TV, NYC) has a sign saying they are "experiencing technical difficulties. We are working with the provider to help resolve the issue. Thank you for your patience." All the other channels are broadcasting fine. Anyone else having this on their Buzzr affiliate?

As of today, FiOS here in North Jersey says there is nothing being fed. Other WWOR subchannels on their listing say the same.

It needs to be strongly understood here that this is not a good thing for Buzzr. Crippling if left unchecked. You can love or hate GSN all you want, but if Buzzr doesn't step up its business model from these recent problems, we'll be back to one channel for good.

As of today, FiOS here in North Jersey says there is nothing being fed. Other WWOR subchannels on their listing say the same.

It needs to be strongly understood here that this is not a good thing for Buzzr. Crippling if left unchecked. You can love or hate GSN all you want, but if Buzzr doesn't step up its business model from these recent problems, we'll be back to one channel for good.

If there are issues with other subchannels, then it's obviously WWOR's problem, not Buzzr's.

Just to make one thing clear, I am by no means a Buzzr "fanboi" or "diehard", nor am I one for GSN, either. (It also doesn't help that FiOS wants me to pay more to see GSN, which is not feasible for me.) So all this "national nightmare" business is a bit extreme.

That said, my main point is that as much as I'd like to see Buzzr succeed and to have two healthy game show network options for many years to come, things like this don't exactly help the cause. The heck with all the nitpicky business about "oh, they're taking credits out, they're speeding up the music, wah wah wah". That's all semantic junk. How about actually producing some first-run original content and trying to get some actual ratings? I've never heard one ratings report on Buzzr since its inception, but we know it's nowhere close to the top 30 ranking that GSN has held in recent years, no matter how much anyone here loves or hates Steve Harvey. Buzzr has done nothing to really truly build a channel. Game show reruns don't carry the same impact as sitcoms and scripted programming on Antenna or other places do, and they never will. If we want more eyes on the network than the people here on this board, get something truly brand new on the channel. Adding another (usually ancient) rerun package of any kind and trying to run on a channel aimed at video game streaming isn't the answer.